rockbox.iriver moved location?

[riksweeney]

Hi,

I haven't updated Rockbox on my iRiver for a while so I downloaded a current build today and unzipped it and noticed that the rockbox.iriver file was inside the .rockbox directory.

I deleted the rockbox.iriver in the root and placed the .rockbox directory in the root as usual and when I started up my iRiver it threw an error (as I expected it would). So I moved the rockbox.iriver up to the root and it's business as usual.

I suppose my question is, do I need to flash my player so that searches for the rockbox.iriver in the .rockbox directory or can I get away with just moving the file every time?

Thanks

Richard

[Llorean]

You can move the file every time, but we'd hoped by now that everyone would be using the latest bootloader, as it's been available for a considerable amount of time and changed the behaviour to look in the .rockbox folder first, then outside it if the file wasn't present.

If you re-install the bootloader (take an original iriver firmware, fwpatcher it with the newest version, boot into the iRiver firmware, and choose to do a firmware update) the newest one will handle finding it in /.rockbox/

[riksweeney]

Cool, thanks. I'll update it at some point!

[woodensoul]

I was unaware that a new bootloader was released.  Where is this documented and does it list the changes that have been made? Also, he doesn't mention which iRiver he is using.  Was a new bootloader released for all iRiver targets?

[Llorean]

As far as I'm aware, only the H100 and H300 ever had a bootloader that didn't look in /.rockbox/, and the updated bootloader was released over a year ago. It's at the IriverBoot wiki page, where it's been for ages.

[woodensoul]

That would explain it.  I've only been using Rockbox since December of '05 so I've never had to update the bootloader, just intall the newest one (version 6) at the time.

[Llorean]

Version 6 looks in /.rockbox/ before looking in the root. There is planned one 'final' bootloader version for the H100 and H300 I believe but it's not done yet.

[adam917]

That's the one that allows flashing Rockbox over the stock firmware completely, right?

Version 6 looks in /.rockbox/ before looking in the root. There is planned one 'final' bootloader version for the H100 and H300 I believe but it's not done yet.

[bluebrother]

That's the one that allows flashing Rockbox over the stock firmware completely, right?

No. To run Rockbox from flash on the h100 series you need the prerelease of the v7 bootloader (and v7 hasn't been released yet)

[adam917]

Perhaps I should've been clearer. I actually did mean Version 7.

No. To run Rockbox from flash on the h100 series you need the prerelease of the v7 bootloader (and v7 hasn't been released yet)

[Llorean]

Well, you quoted me talking about version 6, and the 'final' bootloader. No mention of version 7 in anything I said.